​Jimmy Savile: ‘It couldn't happen again.’ Yes it could and it's probably happening right now

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BBC Newsnight journalist Liz Mackean (L) talks next to colleague Meirion Jones (R) as the pair make statements to the media at BBC Broadcasting House in London on December 19, 2012 after the release of the Pollard report into BBC's handling of the child-sex abuse claims against late presenter Jimmy Savile (AFP Photo / Ben Stansall) / AFP

Will the Savile scandal be the last top establishment cover-up to see the light of day?

We heard this week yet more horrors about the BBC presenter,
'volunteer hospital porter' and prolific child abuser
Jimmy Savile having molested living patients at 28 separate
hospitals, as well as testimony that he gained access to at least
one mortuary to sexually abuse corpses. But despite Savile having
up to a thousand victims, it was only due to the immense courage
and persistence of a handful of selfless journalists that the
devastating story of Britain’s most prolific ever pedophile and
child abuser saw the light of day.

Since the scandal broke in October 2012, the London media have
criticized police, royalty, government officials, health service
managers and BBC staff for covering up Savile’s crimes, but few
if any of these media commentators has admitted to their own
vital role in hushing up Britain's 'worst kept secret'
for decades. After the shameful sacking last month of Richard
Ingrams, who broke the Savile story in his magazine 'The
Oldie', is there anyone left to break such a scandal again?

Friends in the highest of high places

Many have been shocked at Savile’s ability to keep his child
sexual abuse secret for nearly fifty years, while mingling with
royalty and others at the top of British society. Those he abused
were told they better never breathe a word about it because he
had ‘friends in high places,’ which he did.

Those who endorsed Britain’s most prolific ever child sex abuser
were not just the obvious and unpunished BBC bosses, but included
Prince Charles and Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. In his
regular contact with these figures, Savile must have been vetted
by Britain's counter-intelligence service, MI5. Why the Security
Service also endorsed a serial child abuser, giving him the
highest security clearance in the land, has never been adequately
explained.

One of the Savile victims' lawyers, Liz Dux, in response to
today's appalling hospital reports put it like this: "Saying
that this [sexual abuse] was something that happened in the 1960s
and couldn't happen today is simply not good enough.... Nobody is
being held to account." Since nobody has been punished why
shouldn't it happen again? Why shouldn't it be happening now,
still?

It may comfort us to hear “it couldn't happen today”,
but where is the evidence for that? Are Britain's press and
parliament freer than they were thirty years ago? No, the
circumstances surrounding the emergence of the Savile story
suggest that such a scandal may never be exposed again because
immense establishment pressure can be leveraged to keep a lid on
a story, and indeed many of those who eventually told us about
the Savile scandal have now lost their jobs.

London's media ‘professionals’ spike the story of the decade

Social Affairs Correspondent Liz Mackean, from the BBC’s nightly
flagship Newsnight, was the only senior journalist in the country
with the courage to bite the bullet on the ‘worst kept secret
in journalism.’ She put her career on the line and pushed
her editor to broadcast the Savile accusations. Despite Liz, a
former BBC Radio colleague of mine, having obtained
heart-wrenching interviews with Savile’s victims in December
2011, Newsnight editor Peter Rippon refused to even watch, let
alone transmit them. He waved a fraudulent Crown Prosecution
Service (CPS) report around, which exonerated Savile and told Liz
to forget about it.

This was not just bad professional judgment but made Rippon
complicit in Jimmy Savile’s pedophilia in an even more serious
way than individual health service staff and managers who
shredded complaints about Savile when he was alive. These victims
had risked a great deal to go on camera and on the record, but
BBC top brass decided to compound Savile's abuse by pulling the
rug out from under them. Despite being moved sideways by the
corporation after the scandal broke, Rippon was actually endorsed
by the corporation and given another senior BBC editorial job.

Not prepared to roll over and have the story of the decade spiked
by an editor who had become another one of Savile's 'friends
in high places,' Liz spoke to freelance journalist Miles
Goslett who wrote up her Newsnight horror story
and offered it, one by one, to all Britain’s national newspapers.
Goslett dutifully spoke to editor after editor, but not a single
one would publish it. So he turned to the alternative press and
although Private Eye didn't print the story, eventually, in March
2012 Miles got to tell his tale in former Private Eye founder
Richard Ingrams' magazine 'The Oldie'.

Despite eventually being so spectacularly exonerated, Liz Mackean
could not carry on at Newsnight, and, since her Savile
tribulations of December 2011, all the show's top staff, one by
one, have abandoned ship. First, when technicians refused to stop
deleting his interviews, political correspondent Michael Crick,
then economics editor Paul Mason, and most recently, last week,
the show’s anchorman for the last 25 years, Jeremy Paxman,
presented his final show.

The National Union of Journalists (NUJ) report bullying is rife
in the BBC and senior management simply do not have the will to
check it. Jeremy Paxman's parting riposte this week was that the
dumbed-down current affairs show is 'made by thirteen
year-olds.'

Private Eye – Britain’s ‘controlled opposition’ scandal sheet?

Though many were surprised the Savile story appeared in The Oldie
and not the much higher circulation Private Eye, I was not. After
having reported on IRA terrorism in the early 1990s for the BBC,
in March 2007 I found myself investigating the London bombings.
When I came up with evidence that a privatized security contract
on the London Underground may have been linked to the 7/7
attacks, which killed 52 people, it was to Private Eye that I
turned.

Israeli company Verint Systems had won the CCTV surveillance
contract five months before the bombings. Verint, formerly known
as Comverse Infosys, had recently changed their name because
their parent company, Comverse, was embroiled in a fraud scandal
in the United States. Chief executive of Comverse, Kobi
Alexander, ended up being chased half way across the world to a
hideout in Namibia before he finally paid off the Securities and
Exchange Commission (SEC) fines to the tune of a cool 54 million
dollars. What, I asked, was such a foreign firm with a former
explosives expert in the Israeli Defense Force (IDF), Daniel
Bodner as CEO, doing in charge of any part of London Underground
security?

London Underground’s CCTV is of particular interest because not a
single image has ever been produced of the three alleged 7/7
bombers on, or getting onto, any of the bombed tube trains that
day. I also pointed out to Private Eye that then Israeli Finance
Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who happened to be in London on the
day of the bombings, was reported by the Associated Press (AP) in
Jerusalem as not leaving his hotel that morning to go to his
scheduled Israel investment conference because he had received a
warning. There was only one problem with this - the bombings were
supposed to be a surprise attack.

Attacks on public transport are the hallmark of what is known in
far-right circles as a ‘Strategy of Tension’. Their
purpose, as in Italy's 1980 Bologna Railway station bomb, planted
by the state as part of NATO's Operation Gladio, is to convince
press, public and politicians alike of a need for increased
government ‘security measures’ in an apparently
senseless, random attack on public services.

Instead of printing my report about the London Underground
security firm Comverse’s crimes, or legitimate worries about
foreign private security firms being a potential vector for
terrorism, Private Eye instead held fire for a year, until
November 2008, and then printed a smear against me in their
anonymous ‘Ratbiter’ column. It had been cut and pasted
from Harry’s Place, the anonymous website of Zionist lawyer David
Toube, and accused me of being a homophobic, anti-Semitic bigot.
Nice!

On the really big international scandals, Private Eye cover up
for the establishment. After the death of Princess Diana in
Paris, Private Eye cruelly dubbed bereaved father of Diana's soon
to be fiancé, Mohammed Al Fayed, 'The Phoney Pharaoh'.
In the Jimmy Savile story, despite testimony of ritual abuse
'The Eye' mocked psychotherapist Valerie Sinason and
other professionals who supported the victims. Britain's scandal
sheet has become a ‘limited hangout,’ an establishment tool for
controlled dissent.

As his prize for leaving the establishment's biggest scandals
alone and playing along with the pantomime of British democracy,
Private Eye's editor, Ian Hislop, is now a regular panel show
guest on network TV and radio, and his views on this, that and
everything else are 'immortalized' in mainstream TV
documentaries.

West Yorkshire police The Cook Report and Savile’s ‘satanic
rituals’

Psychotherapist Valerie Sinason had been talking for years, to
anyone who would listen, about Savile. She personally interviewed
two of his victims in her London based 'Clinic for
Dissociative Studies' who told her at Stoke Mandeville
Hospital in Buckinghamshire that they had been repeatedly
sexually abused in horrific rituals they described as
'satanic.'

Wearing robes and masks in the hospital basement and to Latin
chants of ‘Hail Satanus’, the idea, it seems, was
two-fold: for Savile to ‘share’ his victims with other
abusers and also to so deeply traumatize the children with
supernatural threats of demons and devil masks that, through
fear, they would never dare breathe a word to anyone. They were
being groomed, as so many children are in government ‘care
homes’ for serial abusers, and for pimps, heading down the
lonely road to a life of abuse or prostitution.

Sinason has not been the only one to talk of satanic ritual abuse
in connection with Savile. Britain’s most popular TV journalist
ever, Roger Cook, also exposed what he believed was a satanic
ritual abuse ring in Savile's home town of Leeds, Yorkshire.
During the airing of an edition called the 'The Devil's
Work' on 17 July, 1989 (under the umbrella of the
ten-million-viewers-a-night 'Cook Report' series),
witnesses told Cook that a certain ‘Sorcerer’s Apprentice
shop’, run by one Chris Bray, was connected to a ritual
abuse ring in the city. Post-transmission threats by Bray to
prosecute Central TV proved empty.

Ironically, in 2000, it was Rupert Murdoch’s now infamous News of
the World that destroyed The Cook Report by printing three weeks
of double page spreads strewn with lies about Cook ‘making up
stories.’ By the time Roger Cook had beaten Murdoch back in
the courts, a new boss had arrived at ITV and Britain's most
successful and popular ever current affairs series was dead.

Unfortunately, the program, made with the help of courageous
ritual abuse victims, literally went up in smoke when it was
destroyed in a fire at a warehouse run by ‘secure
storage’ firm Iron Mountain, along with the entire archive
of Central TV's Cook Report.

The explanation as to why Savile was never prosecuted in his home
town of Leeds is now clear, although it is still denied to this
day by West Yorkshire police. Every Friday morning Savile held
what he called his ‘breakfast club’ with the 'great
and good' of the city - social gatherings that included
senior police officers. This cozy relationship is why the pleas
of Savile’s victims to health officials and police went nowhere
for decades. Savile’s friends in West Yorkshire’s ‘high
places’ would doubtless prove doubly useful by deflecting
unwelcome questions to police from reporters.

Like Richard Ingrams everyone with guts in journalism is being
squeezed out

With the dismissal of The Oldie editor Richard Ingrams on May 30,
2014, followed by all the magazine’s top staff over the last few
weeks, one of the last British news outlets with the will to
expose evil deeds in high places also looks to have been killed
off.

All we are left with now in Britain is what Indian writer Ravi
Zacharias calls ‘postmodern’ news. Outlets that remain
are more loyal to the power elite than they are to the public, so
while they will merrily print all sorts of minor corruption
scandals, the ones that extend to the very top of British
society, to evil deeds in royalty, the army council or City of
London blue bloods, may never see the light of day again.

This largely Tory elite have a simple, unsportsmanlike principle:
if any organization irks you, political or media, simply bankrupt
it through the courts, or buy it up and put your cronies in
charge, preferably both.

Not asking the difficult questions and not investigating the
powerful is by far the easier option, but is it journalism? The
fact is, many opinion formers in Britain would rather not know
about depravity among those who hold our fate in their hands.

But without publishers and broadcasters with the sort of courage
Liz Mackean, Miles Goslett and Richard Ingrams demonstrated in
breaking through the Savile cover-up, it is only a matter of time
until the soul is ripped out of our society, and we become a
nation led by the nose to a tune played by thirteen year olds.

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